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... character and from private friendship , but because you prove in your own person what a happy life that of a Member of the Old Irish Parliament must have been . Wit , humour , elo- quence , administered at suitable times and at ...
... character and from private friendship , but because you prove in your own person what a happy life that of a Member of the Old Irish Parliament must have been . Wit , humour , elo- quence , administered at suitable times and at ...
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... character was apostolical ; his labours were as incessant as his benevolence was bound- less . Death overtook him while engaged in his Master's work ; his spirit fled to a kindred home . His example was a rich legacy to the Church which ...
... character was apostolical ; his labours were as incessant as his benevolence was bound- less . Death overtook him while engaged in his Master's work ; his spirit fled to a kindred home . His example was a rich legacy to the Church which ...
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... character of Poynings ' law . We may observe the philosophical advice given by a con- temporary of Sir John Davis . Lord Bacon , in a letter to Secretary Cecil , in 1601 , recommends the reforming the bar- barous laws , customs , habits ...
... character of Poynings ' law . We may observe the philosophical advice given by a con- temporary of Sir John Davis . Lord Bacon , in a letter to Secretary Cecil , in 1601 , recommends the reforming the bar- barous laws , customs , habits ...
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... character of King Harry , and I have little doubt exclaimed to each other , " If we do not make a prompt submission , we shall all , like his Excellency the Lord Lieu- tenant , be most assuredly hanged . " They accordingly sub- mitted ...
... character of King Harry , and I have little doubt exclaimed to each other , " If we do not make a prompt submission , we shall all , like his Excellency the Lord Lieu- tenant , be most assuredly hanged . " They accordingly sub- mitted ...
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... character of Elizabeth - Legislation during her Reign - Creation of Free Schools - The First Day of a Session - Length of the Sittings- Payment of Knights and Burgesses - History of the Foundation and Library of the University of Dublin ...
... character of Elizabeth - Legislation during her Reign - Creation of Free Schools - The First Day of a Session - Length of the Sittings- Payment of Knights and Burgesses - History of the Foundation and Library of the University of Dublin ...
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Page 295 - In every government, though terrors reign, Though tyrant kings, or tyrant laws restrain, How small, of all that human hearts endure, That part which laws or kings can cause or cure.
Page 307 - Alone stood brave Horatius, But constant still in mind ; Thrice thirty thousand foes before, And the broad flood behind. " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus, With a smile on his pale face. "Now yield thee," cried Lars Porsena,
Page 284 - I received one morning a message from poor Goldsmith that he was in great distress, and as it was not in his power to come to me, begging that I would come to him as soon as possible. I sent him a guinea, and promised to come to him directly. I accordingly went as soon as I was dressed, and found that his landlady had arrested him for his rent, at which he was in a violent passion. I perceived that he had already changed my guinea, and had got a bottle of Madeira and a glass before him.
Page 310 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 273 - Is not a patron, My Lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
Page 288 - Goldsmith's abridgment is better than that of Lucius Florus or Eutropius; and I will venture to say that if you compare him with Vertot, in the same places of the Roman History, you will find that he excels Vertot. Sir, he has the art of compiling, and of saying every thing he has to say in a pleasing manner. He is now writing a Natural History, and will make it as entertaining as a Persian Tale.
Page 308 - No sound of joy or sorrow Was heard from either bank ; But friends and foes in dumb surprise, With parted lips and straining eyes, Stood gazing where he sank ; And when above the surges They saw his crest appear, All Rome sent forth a rapturous cry, And even the ranks of Tuscany Could scarce forbear to cheer.
Page 294 - Thus every good his native wilds impart, Imprints the patriot passion on his heart; And e'en those ills, that round his mansion rise, Enhance the bliss his scanty fund supplies. Dear is that shed to which his soul conforms, And dear that hill which lifts him to the storms; And as a child, when scaring sounds molest, Clings close and closer to the mother's breast, So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar, But bind him to his native mountains more.
Page 285 - I put the cork into the bottle, desired he would be calm, and began to talk to him of the means by which he might be extricated. He then told me that he had a novel ready for the press, which he produced to me. I looked into it, and saw its merit ; told the landlady I should soon return, and having gone to a bookseller, sold it for sixty pounds. I brought Goldsmith the money, and he discharged his rent, not without rating his landlady in a high tone for having used him so ill '." My next meeting...
Page 308 - And now he feels the bottom ; Now on dry earth he stands ; Now round him throng the Fathers To press his gory hands ; And now with shouts and clapping, And noise of weeping loud, He enters through the River-gate, Borne by the joyous crowd.